The awesome Brandon Sweet rejoins us to continue our discussion of the rave scene this week! Super duper thanks to host and supreme podcast overlord Bianca not only for allowing Brian to dredge up this topic again, but also for taking the lead and turning the episode into an interview.

And as always, a big thanks to our listeners for contributing thoughtful emails!

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The song at the end of this week’s show is Back Again by Run Tings.

Show notes:

• Joe Mastroianni Ride for Heart charity pledge
• DOS Nostalgia #17: Challenges of learning DOS programming
• Lionhead: The Inside Story by Wesley Yin-Poole
• Google I/O conference
• Our photo gallery from the Personal Computer Museum
• Personal Computer Museum
• DJ Tiesto @ Energy 2000
• CherryMoon Tracks 1 – House of House
• Ecstasy of Order documentary
• DJ Hell My Definition of House Music

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Yeah, uh, I don’t even know. I don’t even know what happened here. Robert Menes, Troels Pleimert, and Darth Helmet. And did someone mention kissing Iolo? I just don’t even know anymore.

The song at the end of this week’s show is Stage 4 by Yuzo Koshiro from Streets of Rage.

Show notes:

• Pinkerton Road closing announcement
• Install OSX on VMWare
• Upper Memory Block podcast about Rebel Assault
• Nostalgia roadtrip
• Nostalgia Roadtrip podcast
• Space Quest Historian
• Troels on YouTube
• Troels on Patreon
• Troels on a bagel
• Back Seat Designers podcast
• Point and Gif Adventure Twitter

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Oi oi! This week we welcome Brandon Sweet to talk about the Toronto rave scene of the 90s and 2000s. This is an epic chat of nostalgia about the hedonistic days of yore, fuelled above all else by our love of electronic music.

Extra special thanks to Joe and Will StrangeFlow for their thoughtful voicemails, and especially to host Bianca for her patience!

The song at the end of this week’s show is Shapes of Sleep by The Grid.

Show notes:

• Battle Android Trooper on Mixcloud
• Battle Android Trooper on SoundCloud
• Link to full Will StrangeFlow voicemail
• StrangeFlow on Soundcloud
• StrangeFlow’s record label Dynasty Shit
• Space Quest Historian podcast season 3
• Demodulated Mixtapes

P.s., in our excitement we never did define the official rave mantra of PLUR – Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect

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Woowoo! This would have been a more good-luck tale if Joey the carnivorous hellbird didn’t bite Brian so much. Regardless, whatever flesh remained of us made gumflapping sounds this week about remastered, rebooted, remade, reimagined, reincarnated, rejiggered, and redone games!

Thanks again to Joe Mastroianni for the great new mic! Please let us know whether this improves the audio.

And congrats to Ryan Barnard for winning Troels’s inexplicable contest of mysterious hoohaw!

The songs at the end of this week’s show are the Transylvania themes from the original Ducktales on NES by Hiroshige Tonomura, and from Ducktales Remastered by Jake Kaufman.

Show notes:

• Backseat Designers podcast about pretty much the same thing
• Don’t Get Fired on Android
• Dinertown Detective Agency
• Ur-Quan Masters
• Ur-Quan Masters HD
• Ducktales Remastered soundtrack

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What a great chat we had this week with our returning guest Chris Olson. This week we begin chatting about video game documentaries but there’s lots more territory to cover in an episode in the hopefully not-too-distant future.

The song at the end of this week’s show is Sun Bleach by Lifeformed featured in Double Fine Adventure.

Show notes:

• Diablo 1 speedrun with exploits
• John Romero’s Ballyhoo map
• Play Infocom’s Ballyhoo in your browser
• The Amiga Years successful Kickstarter campaign
• Indie Game: The Movie
• Double Fine Adventure
• Troels’s 12 game episodes

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This week we’re talking about achievements: some of our great moments in gaming, a buncha WoW, our manually featured Steam achievements, and Joey goes squawk a few times.

The song at the end of this week’s show is Circles by Kate Tempest as featured in the game Quantum Break.

Show notes:

• Troels’s 12 game episodes
• PushBullet
• Windows Anniversary update
• Francisco’s Ben Jordan marathon
• Brian’s Steam Profile
• Bianca’s Steam Profile
• Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio
• Audioshield
• Brian’s WoW achievement page
• Bianca’s WoW achievement page
• Kingslayer!

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So many birds!!!

We’re babysitting Grandpa Square’s budgies this week and, thanks to some post-production audio compression, the relentless chirpy jackhammering on our end sounds like a melodious heavenly for you. We need chirp-cancelling headphones or something, eh?

We talk about real world lessons learned from video games this week. Like, wear a hardhat before headbutting question blocks. Trust us.

The song at the end of this week’s show is Overture II by Sakai Asuka and Yu Miyake from the game We Love Katamari.

Show notes:

• Watch Paint Dry
• Xbox One gamepad driver fix for Windows 10 build 1511
• Miitomo

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It’s a good thing Amayirot Akago is our faithful friend because he joins us in the Square Bunker to talk about cheating! I bet you never took us for pumpkin eaters, didja?

The song at the end of this week’s show is Hotel Exteriors Future by Clint, Michael, or Peter from the game Day of the Tentacle.

Show notes:

• Akago on Twitch
• Akago on YouTube
• Akago on Patreon
• Akago on Tumblr
• Akago’s 100 game oath
• Sex, Drugs, and Cartoon Violence by Russ Pitts
• I am a medieval man – warcraft hidden song
• Wizard of Id
• Age of Empires 2 cheats
• Warcraft 2 cheats

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Ummmmmm what in the world did we talk about this week again? All I can remember is that we had our dearest of dear friends Troels Pleimert as our guest. I’ll tell you what we didn’t talk about though: the topic.

The song at the end of this week’s podcast is I don’t even know what to call this thing by Troels Pleimert.

Show notes:

• Troels on YouTube
• Space Quest Historian
• Troels’s music Tumblr
• Back Seat Designers
• Open Crowd Source
• Ben Chandler: Paranormal Investigator
• Bianca’s personal domain
• Brian’s personal domain
• LayoutIt
• Virtual Broom Closet
• Space Quest fanfiction…
• The Cat Lady
• Hector: Badge of Carnage
• Utena
• Rose of Versailles
• Vampire Hunter D
• Fushigi Yuugi
• Pet Shop of Horrors

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Ohhhh yeah, pump up that ego!

Thanks for tolerating our downtime as we switched web hosts over the weekend.

No real topic this week because we had an influx of fantastic letters from our beloved readers. Thanks a million, Squares!

The song at the end of this week’s show is Burning Building by Mutsuhiko Izumi and 
Miki Higashino from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game.

Show notes:

• Game by Game podcast list
• Upper Memory Block podcast episode about emulators
• Day of the Tentacle Remastered on GOG
• CGW Museum
• Old Game Mags
• Vermillion, Syntax
• Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
• NTLite
• Moslo
• Clicker Heroes

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